{"id":5654,"date":"2024-01-15T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2024-01-11T02:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T01:11:53","slug":"the-sign-of-a-forthcoming-revolution-in-our-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5654","title":{"rendered":"THE SIGN OF A FORTHCOMING REVOLUTION IN OUR HABITS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The excitement of the arrival of the first-ever steam locomotives in Provence, continued the day after the blessing. Six hundred people were invited to ride in the new train from Marseilles to Arles and back for a similar ceremony.<\/h3>\n

Bishop Eugene was not amused to have had to participate:<\/h3>\n

I would have preferred to attend the pontifical High Mass in the Cathedral rather than going to make the station stop at Arles with the new railway wagons. The trip took place promptly and safely. In Arles there was a superb luncheon and especially some well-heated stoves, because a person could freeze to death in this glacial atmosphere, the snow was falling in large flakes. The plentiful assemblage was to return at four thirty.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod’s Diary, 9 January 1848, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

The newspaper was enthusiastic, however:<\/h3>\n

“Two and a half hours to go from Marseille to Arles, isn’t that the sign of a forthcoming revolution in our habits, in the conditions of existence of populations for whom distances are thus erased, and whose relationships will multiply ad infinitum?”.<\/h3>\n

And the journalist concluded:<\/h3>\n

“This day of January 9, 1848, despite the inclemency of the skies, is one of the most beautiful that Marseille has ever recorded in its annals”.<\/h3>\n

REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The distance from Marseilles to Arles was 85 kilometers so the locomotive marvels were speeding at around 35 kilometers per hour (around 20 miles per hour). Presumably the Bishop was not in the carriage drawn by “Lucifer”!<\/h3>\n

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” (Lao Tzu)<\/h3>\n

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